A Day on our Dairy Farm From Start to Finish: Barn Chores, Milking Cows, and Bottling Milk
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Come along as we go through a normal processing day on our small, organic, regenerative dairy farm. We start with morning barn chores and milking cows. Then take about four hours to pasteurize and bottle milk. Just when we are done processing, it is time for evening chores. Good work and great views make us happy farmers. Thanks for all your support and comments!
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I'm Thankful to have y'alls videos to watch each week!! God Bless!!
Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoy them!
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I grew up on a small Wisconsin dairy farm. I've always felt that it is indeed possible to flourish (modestly) with a small herd of well-managed cows. I'm an old man now and I was never able to make that dream a reality for myself, so I'm glad to see you folks actually making it happen. Hats off to you, bravo! Managing a small herd of dairy cows is, to me, the highest art of agriculture. I would love to come for a visit some day. Stay well and keep on keeping on.
Michael, thank you for your words! We are so happy to have you along. Yes, we too believe a family can make a nice living on a small farm. We have been pleasantly surprised by the support we have gotten in our community and online. We'd love to have you come visit. Contact us via our email info@clovermountaindairy.com to stay in touch!
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Thanks for taking your time to take this video. I hope you're satisfied with your earnings on this farm.
It has exceeded our expectations, that’s for sure! Once the season closes, we plan to do update video on the financials of our dairy.
Thank you for sharing! a lot of hard work goes to make it happen
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful little operation, you really care for your animals
Thank you for your kind words!
I would love to see more family farms start doing what you guys are doing.
We definitely need more support (mentors, land grant college research, access to funding, small affordable equipment) for small farms. It really is about rebuilding farming communities and food security. There will always be a place for mega-farms but that should not be the default or the ideal. Thanks for your support!
@@vnthomas16 yea. I’m pressing the idea of switching to the smaller family farms like yourself. I totally disagree with what the big corporations are doing and hurting the small farms.
Thank you for sharing. I am always excited to watch every new video that come out. Keep it up!
Thanks!
I grew up on a dairy farm. I miss it a lot. Awesome work
Thank you for the compliment! It’s a lot of work, but we love it!
thank you for allowing me to watch your farm for a day, I myself have milked with great satisfaction on my farm in the Netherlands for 45 years, but my milk went to the cooperative Friesland Campina, where 70% of the Dutch dairy farmers are members. , so we process and sell the milk through the cooperative, nice to see how it can be done differently, keep it up and enjoy the beautiful profession of cattle farmer
We’re glad you came along with us! No matter the country, there is a universal language of dairying and the cows. We love it! Thanks for watching!
I love your videos. I'm from Germany and I love to watch your videos and your dairy.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the videos!
What a beautiful view! Cows look so nice and clean and dry. They trade the care you give them for their taste milk. Thank you for sharing.🐂🐂🐂🐂😷👍
That is very true! We really believe the milk is better because we keep them the healthiest and happiest! Thank you for the kind words and following along!
glad you can do this. small is good.
We’re very happy! Thank you!
Love your videos. Always enjoy you folks sharing what you and your critters are are doing. Small lean to for isolating the compressor is a great idea. Remove the noise and then pipe in some mood music.
Chickens doing nice job of clean up. Are they laying? Best wishes for all on the Thomarosa 💑
Don’t you mean “moooo’d music”? Haha! Thanks so much for the support!
Great video thanks for sharing 👍
You’re welcome!
Thanks for taking us along on your daily routine! It makes me laugh when I see your A#1 operation and I compare that in my mind to my grandfather’s 1-3 cow milking operation back 50 years ago. I would tell you what it consisted of but you would be horrified! It’s a wonder we all didn’t die of some kind of disease. My hats off to you all for all your hard work and a excellent facility and animals! It was good to see footage of the dog, cat, and chickens. I love seeing them all!
Thanks for sharing! Yes, we’ve come a long way! We always appreciate your support!
New viewer today from Kenya Africa.good job folks.
Welcome aboard! Glad to have you here!
You people are doing a wonderful job. Keep up the good work
Thank you!
My first time here. That's a nice clean looking operation there. I'd be happy to be your chocolate milk taster any time you feel the need.
Living the dream i quess, imagin you have 12 cows then it would start to look like work, anyways Washington state is on my bucketlist so who knows some day, thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
You’re welcome! We are indeed living our dream. It took a lot of time and hard work to get here, but it’s very rewarding.
Your dairy is a dream come true!! Congratulations!!
Thank you!
Bella familia, felicitaciones, que Dios los bendiga
Hi friend nicely doing your jobs
Thanks!
Don’t know if it’s been suggested before - I would either dig a pit for the manure spreader or a ramp for the wheelbarrow or combination of both to avoid scooping the wheelbarrow every trip. Your cleanliness is extraordinary!!!
We’ve thought of a few different options, maybe even going old school with a litter carrier. We plan to add some composting someday, so that will affect our waste handling too.
Changing the sheets! 😁😁😁
Yup! 👍
You two rock, love the teamwork.
Thank you! Working together is something we both enjoy!
Thanks for sharing. I love your videos!
Thank you! And thanks for watching!
Well, you two are simply the best! I love watching your vids and wait each week to view what you have to offer. I so love your attention to detail with regards to your milking operation. If I lived in your area, I would have no problem buying all my milk products from you. You two are the beautiful people. Close to nature and what it provides. Thanks for the peek into your daily work. Love form Tempe, Arizona
You’re welcome! We’re glad you enjoy the videos!
What a nice, clean operation, and your cows look very content!! I watched when y'all were building everything. The milking parlor looks great!!! Thanks for doing what y'all do!!!❤️
Thank you! And thanks for watching too!
Love your nice clean operation !!! I used to have a raw milk dairy in PA, it was a ton of work, but boy do i miss it !!!
It is a ton of work, but very rewarding. I love it! Thanks for watching!
Comet is totally adorable!!! This was neat to see how a typical day is on the dairy.
He is pretty cute, isn’t he?
Another great video! Thank you both for taking the time to make them. I'm sure it takes a bit to put them together.
It does. The actual filming slows things down a bit, and of course editing takes time too. We’re getting more efficient with experience, but we enjoy making videos and sharing our farm.
Excellent video! You two know how to put in a hard days work! Thanks for sharing!
Not much train time this day! Haha! Looking forward to the weekend!
Love your farm! Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome!
Lovely!
wish were closer i would definitly buy my milk from you folks.love creamline milk,remins me oof the tank milk we grew up on.
We appreciate the support! We vat pasteurize, which is the lowest temperature pasteurization, and honestly, I can’t taste a difference between it and the milk right out of our bulk tank. But, I can definitely taste a difference in ultra-pasteurized milk from the store! And not in a good way!
Love you guys looks awesome farming and with a limited amount of cows it seems manageable 😊
You are so inspiring! I have had a family cow, but have often considered having a small local dairy for my neighbors in my retirement. I enjoy your videos!🙂
Glad you enjoy the videos! You wouldn’t be the first ones to scale up from a family cow! Haha! Thanks for watching!
Hi Folks, Can't beat life on the farm. Glad you are doing well ,if we lived there,we would buy milk, Sally my wife loves milk. Thanks 🇺🇸
Yes indeed! And yes, we’re doing well. We’re reveling in Spring!
Not bad for a couple of Coasties :}}}}}}
We do ok... haha!
Really like the way you 2 work together.
Thanks! The military kept us apart for so many years , so we’re very happy to be able to labor beside each other!
greetings from a german 150head dairy, we also do direct to consumer products. I love how you guys take all of this so serious . Most very small dairys I know look messy and disarrenged.
Hello! How exciting to hear from a dairy in Germany! My (Stacy) family originally came from near Nuremberg. We hope to visit Germany in the future (and of course visit some dairy farms whilst there). Thank you for the compliments and thanks for watching our videos!
whoooo hoooo its moooovie time thomarosa style
Enjoy!
Just came across your channel this a.m. LOVE IT! “Knock-KNOCK-Room Service” 😂💜😉👍 From the East Coast to the West Coast, wonderful farm you folks have, sure wish I lived closer!!! Keep your videos coming 😉
Glad you found us! Welcome aboard!
Very very nice setup you folks have there and the parlour is top notch. The one thing I’d like to mention that I noticed and I got this advice from an old cattleman in northern BC. Keep a sharp pair of scissors or a razor knife handy at the milking stall or squeeze so you can trim the tail hair just below the tail. As you can guess it keeps a lot of things a lot cleaner and in the colder temperatures it cuts down on the buildup.
I always keep a razor knife in my pocket! Don’t go anywhere on the farm without it!
very happy cows... love the vid.
Thanks!
Wow! I just found you guys and I'm so happy I did! Thank you for fun wholesome and informative content! Would love to see how you put up hay sometime too! Hello from Maryland and keep sharing your lovely farm life please! I think small farms are the future and its beautiful 😊
Welcome aboard! Glad you found us! Yes, our haymaking videos are always popular, so we’ll be sure to film it this year!
Use a plastic snow shovel you will be surprised how much longer it lasts and how much easier it is to use on concrete...
It is unbelievable!!!!
We use a plastic one on our sidewalks and patios and such. I don’t think it would pop a frozen cow pie off the concrete though! Haha! Plastic is definitely lighter. Thanks for watching!
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I had to come back for another look at that yogurt.
It’s good yogurt!
Great video. It was always our plans were to have a 12 cow raw milk dairy but with young kids that turned into a 25 cow dairy and we ship to O.V. The processing and less cows would have been nice but just milking and shipping wholesale is what worked for us. I enjoy watching. Keep up the good work.
The organic dairy we worked on before starting our own dairy in an OV shipper. They seem like a good outfit. Better than most the other coops it seems. At least they give smaller farms a market for their milk. Thanks for watching!
so you process the milk every day? why no mention of lunch? luv your channel as always, god bless. :)
We process twice a week. No mention of lunch, because we didn’t get one! Haha! It’s hard to take one in the middle of processing, so we usually just get a snack afterwards to hold us over until dinner. Thanks for watching!
Ooooo make me one of those mocha ones, with erythritol or allulose instead of sugar! I'll buy it! :) You guys are great! Love watching ya!
Happy to hear you enjoy our videos! Thanks for watching! We appreciate it!
Are the 4 cows all you want to milk or do you want to grow your Herd and milk more? I really enjoy your videos. You have an awesome set up for small dairy!
We don’t want to get too big. Definitely not more than 12. But I think we’d be happiest around 6-8. Glad you enjoy the videos! Thanks for watching!
I wear the same hat 🙂
We both love hats, and have an ample collection to choose from! Haha! Thanks for watching!
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Comet has a beautiful face
He is a handsome little guy!
Y’all are doing a great job I especially like y’all’s manure spreader what will they think of next Lol
Thanks for watching!
You guys are doing great! I grew up on my grandparents farm. And farmed & milked cows with my brother until 2011, but continued to own show cattle. Now that I have children of my own, I'd love to do what you guys are sharing with the milk cows we own, which is 3 with 6 head of young stock. We have 20 acres, and want to build a new barn. What are your recommendations if you were to build again?
We are really happy with how the barn works. The only change I would make is maybe a dedicated utility room. The water heater is in the processing room, which is fine, but the vacuum pump is a bit annoying in the parlor. Actually, I’m currently building a “pump hut” to move it out of there, but a separate room would have been ideal. That said, I’m not sure where I would have put it! Haha! Thanks for watching! Wishing you the best on your barn build. It’s a lot of work, but so wonderful to have a nice place to work!
Awesome work:-)
I want to know about manure spreader please make a full video because I want to build one we don't about that so please make a video ❤️❤️❤️ and you don't send a milk every day to market?
Love from India ❤️
I have to do some major maintenance on my manure spreader, so that will have to wait until this summer when I’m not using it. When I do, I’ll make a video about it.
We process our milk twice a week, and then sell it throughout the week.
Thanks for watching!
Another great video! Are there any magazines or publications out there for small organic dairy farms? I get Hoards Dairyman, but that focuses on larger operations.
We get Hoards as well, but prefer Progressive Dairy magazine. Nothing really specific for small organic dairy farms, but we do enjoy the Small Farmers Journal. Thanks for watching!
Well, I don’t think I’ll be stopping by anytime soon, as I live in the outskirts of Tulsa Oklahoma in a little community named Bixby. Born in Chicago but lived in Ky. Va. Fl. Ark. Never wanted anything to do with farm life up until about five years ago. You live a very interesting life but I just didn’t see the blessing of your kind of lifestyle until it was too late. Age and health issues are not compatible with the hard work and long hours.
Well, you stop by every time you watch one of our videos! And we appreciate it, and your comments too! We're happy to have you as a "virtual farm guest"!
Nice,,,all very interesting,,also I still would like some cold egg nog 🥺 please,,, hahahaha love it..June '21
Still a tad early for egg nog! Haha!
What’s your thoughts about batten strips on your barn? Labor of love.👍🏻
We decided against batten strips. The ventilation with the gaps is part of our barn design. There is one corner we may batten someday when we get it enclosed and separate from the rest of the barn.
I grew up on a dairy farm in Iowa, we would of used batten strips. -25 LOL ⛄️
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You didn’t train Rose to poop outside yet?
Haha! Her not pooping in the parlor is good enough for us! They’re all pretty good about making our parlor cleanup easy. We have the bucket, but don’t need it often. (Knocks on wood).
Oh my goodness that yogurt!
How on earth could anybody possibly want to eat low fat pap after seeing that!
We’ve had good feedback on our yogurt thus far!
Love your videos , is there a reason you don’t bale hay .
Glad you like our videos! We used to bale, but much prefer the quality that loose hay affords, plus we find it easier to work with.
@@vnthomas16 thank you
What kind of herd size are you guys aiming for ultimately?
Definitely no more than 12... But we’d probably be happiest milking 6-8.
how often do you bottle, make yogurt and how many times do ya change clothes!!
We process twice a week. We just started yogurt, but that will probably be a once a month processing. We have clean clothes we wear just for processing, so before and after I suppose! Haha! Thanks for watching!
How many milking cows is the maximum you would like to have your herd up to ?
Definitely no more than 12... But I think we’d be happiest with around 6-8. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video and sharing insightful, smile filled tour of your dairy farm. Its a lot of work and happy to see you folks are passionate about what you do. Wish you all the best! Question: Do you change boots so that there is 1 pair for use in milking room vs the barn vs the outside vs the processing room?
For the processing room, not only do we have dedicated boots, but also dedicated clothing and hats too. We never wear barn stuff in there for sanitary reasons. Happy New Year!
@@vnthomas16 Thanks and Happy new year!! Good job on seperate gear/accessories for the processing room. Have you already talked about AI effectiveness, things to watch out for? If not yet, can you please make a video about it?
That’s a good topic for the future!
When you get more cows will you use two milker’s
Yes indeed. With just three cows right now, it’s not worth dirtying up a second set of everything. Eventually we plan to add a pipeline too.
How big are your bottle's?
We bottle in half-gallon and quarts. Thanks for watching!
This is the 2nd time I’ve watched your channel. So how long have you been milking once a day? I Love the small farm. How long have you been selling your milk products? Do you buy all your feed? Are you organic dairy? Do you guys have a farm backgrounds? Sorry lots questions here. I grew up a dairy farm many years ago. From the 1960.’s through the 80’s . We milked around 40 to 50 cows. Anyway very cool. Love your set up. Are you in Vermont? 😀🐄
Great questions! We’ve been milking once-a-day for about a month now. We’ll be drying everybody off in mid-February. This is our first year selling milk. We also do yogurt. We raise most our own feed, but buy some supplemental alfalfa. We’re planting more alfalfa, so we can move away from buying it. We are Certified Organic. We’re both first-generation farmers and we’re in Washington! Thanks for watching!
@@vnthomas16 Thanks for replying. How many acres do you have?
We have 40!
Would you get pigs this year.
Probably not this year. But, I can see them in our future.
What does A2 genetics mean
Great question! It concerns the protein in the milk. Some people with sensitivities to milk find they can digest A2 milk better. We made an entire video on it where you can learn more: czcams.com/video/LLoNOfCe74w/video.html
Why you don't milk two cows in ones.
Great question! We’re only milking three right now, so it’s not worth it to us to dirty up (and then clean) a second stall, second bucket, and second milker right now. We’re right on the cusp though, so next year milking four we’ll probably use both stalls. Thanks for watching!
what do you do with the steers? love your videos!
We raise them up for beef. Thanks for watching!
What happened to the quail?
We switched to free range chickens. Here is a video: Raising Organic Quail: Lessons Learned and New Chickens!czcams.com/video/dETPB1AcEX8/video.html
Where can I buy that bottle washer?
Somehow I missed that you guys pasteurize. What a waste of that perfect milk. Bummer.
I think its great what's your total heard size
Right now we have 11. Thanks for watching!
How do they make chocolate milk
Do you only milk once a day?
We milked once a day for the last part of the lactation during this last season. It was great! Next season we plan to milk once a day for much longer. Check out the video we made reviewing our once a day milking experience: czcams.com/video/7j7BM0wvwlc/video.html
@@vnthomas16 I watched that this morning! Its very interesting, im glad I found your channel.
We have one cow please send me contact info for the culture.
We get all our cultures from Dairy Connection, Inc. Thanks for watching!
Where can I buy that bottle washer?
I presume you’re referring to the Bar-Maid? It’s made by Bar-Maid, and they also supply the milk bottle brushes. We don’t really use it anymore though. We can wash bottles just as fast, if not faster by hand. Thanks for watching!